From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and InspirationPosted in Arts, Media Archive on 2017-11-12 17:53Z by Steven |
From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and Inspiration
The New York Times
2017-11-08
Siobhan Burke, Dance Writer
Brooklyn, New York
 Misty Copeland (center) coaching students at Harlem Stage on Monday (facing the camera, Emily Lugohart and Gabriela Urena). Credit Marc Millman |
Dougie Baldeo, a 13-year-old ballet student at Harlem School of the Arts, stood onstage Monday night as Misty Copeland offered him pointers on his port de bras, or carriage of the arms.
“Once you start moving, I don’t want to see the claw creep back in,” she said, referring to his sometimes tense right hand.
Dougie was one of 13 students selected to study — if only for an hour — with Ms. Copeland, one of the most famous ballerinas in the world, who in 2015 became the first female African-American principal dancer with American Ballet Theater.
And if the students, from Harlem School of the Arts and the Dance Theater of Harlem School, were already feeling nervous because of all that star power, there was added pressure: an audience. The event, “A Misty Copeland Ballet Class,” organized by Harlem Stage at its Gatehouse space was open to the students’ families and peers, with a few seats available to the public…
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